Defective or dangerous products are the cause of thousands of injuries every year in the U.S. Product liability holds product manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers accountable for injuries suffered from an unsafe product. Responsibility for a product defect that causes injury lies with all sellers of the product who are in the distribution chain. Potentially liable parties include: the product manufacturer; a manufacturer of component parts; the wholesaler, and the retail store that sold the product to the consumer. Companies are legally responsible for the safety of their products. A consumer that has sustained illness, injury, or death as a result of a commercial product has the right to bring a product liability suit against the manufacturer, retailer, distributor, or supplier.
Virtually all products are subject to product liability law from food, drugs, appliances, cars, toys, medical devices, medical implants and blood to tobacco, gases, written documents (instructions), real estate, maps, commercial jets and more. If you have been injured because an object or product was defective, manufactured with faulty materials or parts, designed unsafely, or didn’t carry adequate warnings, you may be eligible for compensation from the product’s manufacturer or the company selling the product. The product liability attorneys at our firm have years of experience handling product defect cases. Our attorneys are nationally recognized in products liability litigation. We offer free consultations and do not charge a fee for our services unless your case is won. Call us today for a free legal consultation.

In a product liability case, to recover damages for injuries resulting from a defective product, your attorneys must prove that the product that caused injury was defective, and that the defect made the product unreasonably dangerous. There are three types of defects that might cause injury and give rise to manufacturer or supplier liability; design defects, manufacturing defects, and marketing defects.

● Design defects – present in a product from the beginning, even before it is manufactured, in that something in the design of the product is inherently unsafe.

● Manufacturing defects – occur in the course of a product’s manufacture or assembly.

● Marketing defects – flaws in the way a product is marketed, such as improper labeling, insufficient instructions, or inadequate safety warnings.

Defective product liability cases are often quite complex and expensive to prosecute. Establishing legal fault often requires the assistance and testimony of experts. If you have
been injured due to a defective product, there are some important steps to take:

● Seek medical attention immediately if you have been harmed by a product.

● Do not dispose of the product that caused the physical harm. It will serve as important evidence in future legal proceedings.

● Preserve evidence of the product to avoid the possibility of tampering.

● Keep any packaging, instructions, and labels from the product.

● Take photos of the product.

● Obtain information from any witnesses present.

● Do not discuss the case with anyone except your attorney.

Our mission in pursuing product liability cases is to obtain just compensation for our injured clients. The damages the consumer is entitled to receive in a dangerous or defective product case include compensation for:<

● Medical expenses

● Lost Wages

● Loss of physical capacity

● Pain, suffering, and mental anguish

Over two-thirds of the attorneys at our firm devote a significant portion of their practice to defending products in personal injury and property damage cases. Through our longstanding, national representation of Honeywell and Emerson, we have unmatched experience in accidents involving environmental controls and systems, including boilers, furnaces, water heaters, and other HVAC related equipment. We have successfully defended scores of other manufacturers; such as General Electric, Graco, National Presto, Maytag, Tecumseh, and DeLaval, on dozens of products across the country. These diverse products include tractors, airplanes, boats, agriculture equipment, deep fryers, elevators, clothes dryers, high-pressure paint sprayers, space heaters, smoke detectors, alarm systems, dishwashers, food-processing equipment, capacitors, escalators, milking equipment, industrial sifters, feed wagons, tobacco, boat engines, shredding machines, bikes, and helicopters.

In addition, our lawyers have experience defending manufacturers, distributors, franchisors, and restaurants in various food and beverage claims and litigation. These cases have varied from exploding bottles and Poptarts to contamination in such things as baby formula, children’s snack foods, restaurant salads and burgers.

Whether dealing with a manufacturing flaw or defect, a design flaw or defect, or a product that is unreasonably dangerous because of inadequate instructions or warnings, the lawyers at our firm will ensure that you or your family will receive fair treatment for injuries caused by dangerous and defective products and get you the compensation you deserve. Whenever an injury occurs, time is of the essence as it is essential to promptly investigate the accident, preserve evidence, and file a lawsuit prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Call our office today for a free initial consultation.

Nowadays due to the raising number of car accidents that happen every day, more and more people start thinking about hiring an accident lawyer. The latter is the real legal support that ensures fair claim to the injured party. The thing is that in compliance with the statistics most of the victims do not know what to do, so the accident lawyer will be able to get compensation either monetary or emotional. Accident lawyers can help any victim of any car, or truck, or motorcycle, or bus, or public transportation or even pedestrian injuries. Some rather skillful attorneys deal also even with airplane accidents. In any case a good lawyer will be your guarantee in winning any type of case mentioned above.

To the best of our knowledge, the most people guilty in car accidents, try to blame the victim and ask for the compensation. If you don’t want this to happen in case of car crashes please consult the car accident attorney. Please also keep in mind that your lawyer should be specialized and experienced in that particular field that you need. In order to get the best lawyer you should make a kind of study on the Internet and find the law firm that will be competent enough and that is familiar with the law and that has a great number of winning accident cases. Fortunately, online you will find the answers to the most of your questions, but mainly general one. It is also important to look through the reviews of the former customers in order to get the whole picture about the competence of the lawyer.

What’s more, a good accident lawyer testifies quick customer service. But the main thing you should remember is that you need to call an accident lawyer immediately after the accident. Only in this case you will get the quickest and the fullest compensation of the losses. In such case the accident lawyer also will be able to collect all needful evidence and as the result he will be your best representative. You may be sure that your lawyer will build a firm and upright case against the guilty party and will present on your behalf for your interest. A good accident lawyer will guarantee that the compensation you get would cover all financial losses including all medical expenses, psychological and emotional pain. Besides, your lawyer will contact the insurance company and provide all the required documents to them.
Of course, the lawyer’s fee if he is really pro one will be high, but most of the lawyers require the compensation only after winning the case and providing you with the desirable compensation. So it is rather essential to get a good accident lawyer.

Last spring, at Marine Corps University, I listened to a large group of Marine captains discuss the moral dimensions of war. The My Lai massacre in Vietnam and Haditha in Iraq were two of their case studies — the latter being one of the Marine Corps’ most controversial chapters in the Iraq war. In that 2005 incident, about two dozen Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed. Eight Marines were later charged with war crimes, though only one received a formal sentence — 90 days in a military prison that were never served.

The room of about 200 Marine officers, who were grade-schoolers on Sept. 11, 2001, also debated torture. Clicking yes-or-no buttons, 40 percent responded “yes” when asked, “Is it acceptable to torture?” The number increased to 55 percent when the captains were asked if torture was O.K. if an enemy prisoner of war knew the location of a missing fellow service member.

Torture is apparently popular not just among many of the troops, it has a big fan in the White House. During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump pledged to reinstate “enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding. That he never did is largely because of one man: Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, a retired four-star Marine general who will leave the administration in February.

General Mattis commanded troops in some of the bloodiest fronts of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Yet he remained cleareyed in his opposition to torture, arguing that it was inhumane, illegal and ineffective. I first met him in Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2004, when I was with the State Department overseeing American political engagement with Sunni leaders — and, when necessary, trying to restrain young and overly aggressive Marines. General Mattis’s reputation had preceded him. The “Warrior Monk” was an erudite scholar of warfare who gave famously profane pep talks to Marines. But he was also a natural statesman.

The general stood out to me when he ordered Marines to make a ramshackle wooden operations center “look better than Yosemite’s visitor center,” as one Marine put it. He wanted visiting Iraqi delegations to feel more at ease despite the hard talk that took place in the center on the eve of the biggest battle of the Iraq war.

After Mr. Trump nominated him, Congress had to give Mr. Mattis a special waiver to lead the Pentagon because he was so recently retired. Legitimate concerns were raised about civilian-military relations. Would a four-decade military man known for his war-fighting acumen be an appropriate fit as a civilian official in charge of a $700 billion military budget and millions of service members? That question now appears more settled than not. Mr. Mattis has been a steadying force on the president’s ever-changing team, reportedly working behind the scenes to restrain his bellicose boss and, more publicly, to sustain America’s global alliances.

The great risk today, almost two years after the Senate voted 99 to 1 to confirm Mr. Mattis, is that an overtly political person will take his place. The likelihood of a new Pentagon chief who prioritizes loyalty to a president over loyalty to the ideals and values of the country could signal a renewed willingness to blur lines in the moral conduct of American foreign policy.

Politicians of all stripes should recall that it was President Ronald Reagan, the most iconic of modern Republican leaders, who urged Senate ratification of the United Nations anti-torture treaty. In a letter to senators urging ratification of the Convention Against Torture in 1988, Reagan wrote that torture was “an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.”